Introducing “Ink Lite” for Zine Printing

https://crimethinc.com/InkLite

We’ve introduced a new option for printing our zines for when you need to make a little toner go a long way. We explain the feature and present a list of all the zines we offer in “Ink Lite.” That's 45 noscripts already!

And don't forget—we offer well over 100 PDFs in our zine library.

#Distroism

Today is the birthday of Claude McKay, Jamaican-born Black author and participant in the Harlem Renaissance.

"If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!"

Occupy Wall Street got off the ground 12 years ago today.

The initial idea was pretty silly—to occupy Zuccotti Park and reach consensus on a single demand, with the naïve idea that President Barack Obama would somehow be forced to grant it.

Instead, owing to the financial crisis, as soon as a puncture opened in business as usual, tens of thousands of people poured into it, bringing a wide range of different concerns and tactics. The most combative Occupy encampments set the baseline for the protests against murderous police that broke out in 2014, setting precedents for the uprising of 2020.

You can read about some of the tensions that unfolded within the Occupy movement here:

https://crimethinc.com/2016/04/14/occupy-democracy-versus-autonomy

Coming out of the Occupy movement, we initiated a dialogue with anarchists who had participated in similar assembly-based movements in Spain, Greece, Bosnia, Slovenia, Brazil, and elsewhere.

Our goal was to identify the ways that the decision-making processes we employed had facilitated or impeded social change, and to formulate an anarchist analysis of democratic discourse and models.

The result was our book, From Democracy to Freedom.

You can download the book here for free, or order a print copy:

https://crimethinc.com/democracy

Solidarity among the Displaced: How Russian anarchists in exile supported Armenian refugee squatters

https://crimethinc.com/Armenia2023

Throughout the world, mass displacement is accelerating as climate catastrophe, economic crisis, and war drive millions into exile, both within their own countries and across borders. These mass migrations are exacerbating gentrification, driving up housing costs just as real estate speculation is rendering more and more people homeless. How can displaced people continue to take political action in their new homes, establishing solidarity across ethnic lines in unfamiliar settings?

In Armenia, Russian anarchists living in exile set one example, supporting Armenian refugees who had squatted the abandoned Ministry of Defense.

For background on anarchist activity in Armenia over the past decade, you could start with this text.

https://crimethinc.com/2017/02/12/high-voltage-lessons-from-four-summers-of-protests-in-armenia

Here's a selection of CrimethInc. posters in Armenian.